Wind-guard.



I PATEN TED FEB. 25 H. H. MCGIFFIN & E. H. MoCA ULEY.

WIND GUARD. APPLICATION P'ILED AUG. 28, 1907.

11% filial nay JNVENTORS l jfr 6 HENRY E. MCGIFFIN AND EDWARD H. MCGAULEY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO JAMES P BRENNAN, OF BRADDOCK, PENNSYLVA- NIA, AND ONE-THIRD TO W. L. ELFORD AND ONE-THIRD TO SAID MCGIFFIN, OF

j PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WIND-GUARD.

V Specification of Letters I Patent.

Pa tented Feb. as, 1908.

Application filed August 28 19.07. Serial No. 390,636.

of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania,

haue invented certain new and useful improvements in Wind-Guards, of which the allow-mg is a .specifi'cation, reference. being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a windguard, and particularly to a device for supponting it in position to be folded. i

The invention has for an object to provide a novel means for supporting the glass of the guard within an entlrely metallic (frame one portion of which is mounted to swing upon the other so that the guard may be disposed in a substantially horizontal osition and offer no obstruction in the use 0 the vehicle. Other and further objects and'advantages of the invention will be hereinafter fully set forth and the novel features thereof defined by the ap ended claims.

In the rawing:-Figure l is a side elevation of the invention applied to an automobile; Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective, and Fig. 4 is a section through the ball and socket joint between the brace or clamping device by which the guard is held in vertical osition.

Like numerals refer to iike'parts in the several figures of-thc drawing. Y

The numeral 10 designates'the main frame orbase upon which the guard is mounted and com rises a plate extending longitudinally of the front or dash board of the vehicle. This base is provided with the recess 11 to. embrace the top of the dash board. 12 and may be bolted or otherwise secured thereto, as shown at 13. The opposite sides of the base plate are provided withharid holds 14 by w 'ch it may be rapidly adjustedin peel.- tion. The up er edge 15 is formed straight and adjacent t ereto are aseries of laterally projectin pivoting lugs 16 adapted to be connecte to similar lugs 17 carried by the lower cross bar 18 of the glass frame. This bar isprovidecl with a receiving groove 19 within which one ed e of the glass is suitably packed,and is iorme at each'end with a socket '20 to receive the free ends 21 of the U-shaped glass frame 2-2 which are removably secured thereto by a cross pin 23. This glass frame is grooved as shown'at 24 throughout its entire inner face to receive the glass and packing therefor.

Each of the side bars 2] of the glass irame has rigidly secured thereto a socket 255, as shownin Fig. 4. This socket is provided with the block of rubber 26 in contact with .which the ball27 onthe-brace rod 28'is held by means of the cap 29 threaded :upon the socket andembracing the ball to form a ball and socket joint. This elastic aching prevents ra-t-tling of the parts an rovides a solid but yielding connection. T lese parts are duplicated atthe iower end of th'e brace, as shown at 30 where the socket is mounted upon a foot block 31 fixed in position upon the frame of the vehicle. I The brace may be of any desired construction, but preferably composed of the telescoping members 28 and 32 clamped in their relative position for the adjustment of the guard by means ofthe device shown at 33 which is specifically described in our application iiled June 26, 1907, Serial No. 380,924. The brace when extended and secured by the clamping device retains the uardin verti- .cal position, as shown by fullhnes in Fig. 1, and the construction of the metallic frame eifectually guards against Warping of the glass frame and the loosening thereof, while it also strengthens the guard and rovides a hinged joint by which the base 0? the glass frame rests on'the firm support of the base plate of the guard. By thls construction the glass may first be inserted in the U-shaped. steel frame for that purpose and this frame with the glass then seated in the grooved bar pivoted at the top of the base, and when the parts are thus connected together the glass is rigidly supported and there is no danger of breakage when the guard is folded into its downward position; as shown by dotted lines, at which time the elastic connection between the ball and socket joints act to rehave all the strain, while the clamping do vice is set to revent any vertical movement of the folded frame. t will'thus be seen that the invention presents a simple, economically constructed very efficient wind guard particularly adapted, to the rough usage to which such devices are subsecure by Letters Patent is z' edge of saidpIat-e.

'1 frame, a' bottom 1. In a wind guard, a U-shaped glass frame grooved on its inner, face, a grooved bottom bar having-sockets" for the ends of said frame, an attaching plate, and means for pivoting said bottom ar to the upper uard, a U-shaped glass bar for. said frame, an. at-- taching plate havingspaced parallel mem bers to embracea portion of a'vehicle and pivotinglugs thereon at its upper edge, downwardly extending lugs upon said bottom bar pivoted to said plate lugs, a brace rod disposed at the front of said guard, and a ball and socket joint between said rod and frame,

3. Ina .wind guard, an attaching frame provided with separated lates forming an embracing portion at its ower edge and a straight upper edge, lateral pivoting lugs 2. .In a wind disposed at the u per edge, a grooved cross bar providedwit lateral lugs pivoted to grrooved cross bar 4. In a wind guard, an attaching frame, a'

ame, sockets at t e opposite ends of sai cross bar, a glass frame comprising a'continuous U-sha ed metal bar grooved throughout its. inner ace and seated at its free ends in said sockets, and securing pins extending through said sockets and free ends.

1 5. In a wind guard, an attaching plate, a glass frame secured thereto and provided upon onefaoe with a fixed socket, a packing cushion in said socket, a supporting-block secured. to a fixed part, a brace rod provided with a ball at one end disposed in contact with the cushion in said socket, and a cap threaded upon said socket portion of said ball.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence-of two witnesses.

HENRY H. MCGIFFIN. EDWARD H. MGCAULEY.

Witnessesz ALERED T. GAGE, JOHN L. FLETCHER.

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